Name

string-length( ) — returns the number of characters in the src string

Synopsis

Defined in: XPath 1.0
Parameters: string src (optional)
Return type: number

When called with no parameters, returns the number of characters in the context node converted to a string.

This example returns 12:

string-length("Hello World!")

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